Flavour of the Month
by Olivia Goldsmith
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Author: Olivia GoldsmithEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1993-06-10
ISBN: 0434300349
Number of pages: 512
Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd
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Summary: 5 Stars
A truly excellent, entertaining novel in the "Hollywood insider" style. Goldsmith's trademark humor is present but so is her wisdom which is encased in the riveting story she tells. The author's compassionate treatment of her themes....beauty, the absence of beauty, the chains that bind women and the sheer irrelevence of physical attributes, is complex and powerful. Acknowledging the reality while highlighting the tragic unfairness is a difficult balance to achieve; yet Goldsmith does this flawlessly and amusingly. In the end, the lessons are there. But as a tribute to her tragic end, I find it sad that apparently Olivia was a prisoner who could not escape the very shackles she thought were so wrong for women. How ultimately unfair that plastic surgery caused her death. What wonderful novels she left for all of us to read and reread forever.
Summary of Flavour of the Month
Mary Jane Moran is an actress in New York: a brilliant actress who has just lost the role she created and the only man she ever loved. Hollywood has stolen both, and rejected her as too fat, too plain and - at 34 - too old for the movie version. She decides that only beauty can change her life.Literature & Fiction Books
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